Crystals are supposed to be hard and brittle. But when we make them bendy, they help reveal the secrets of how elastic ...

Minimising semiconductor flaws will expand China's price gap with US for advanced chips used in electronic warfare, aerospace Researchers in China say they have pinpointed the main cause of defects in ...

This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...